University School of Nashville boys soccer coach Daniel Gordon has been invited to speak at the Soccer in Black and White conference in St. Lucia from Tuesday-June 18.

“It is an international soccer conference, a first for the Ministry of Sports and the Sacred Sports Foundation,” Gordon said. “(There will be) speakers and clinicians from around the world.”

Gordon, the chairman of the Black Soccer Coaches sub-committee of the National Soccer Coaches Association of America, will be conducting a level four coaching course to approximately 50 high school and club coaches St. Lucia.

“Also, I will be heading up a committee there to establish a high school boys and girls league,” Gordon said.

]]>http://blogs.tennessean.com/high-school-sports/2013/06/05/gordon-to-speak-at-conference-in-st-lucia/feed/0MBA’s Trey Gill named state soccer player of yearhttp://blogs.tennessean.com/high-school-sports/2013/05/14/mbas-trey-gill-named-state-soccer-player-of-year/
http://blogs.tennessean.com/high-school-sports/2013/05/14/mbas-trey-gill-named-state-soccer-player-of-year/#commentsTue, 14 May 2013 19:37:09 +0000Chip Cirillohttp://blogs.tennessean.com/high-school-sports/?p=4738

MBA’s Trey Gill

Montgomery Bell Academy senior Trey Gill, a South Carolina signee, has been named the Gatorade Tennessee boys soccer player of the year.

He has 10 goals and nine assists for the Big Red (12-0-1).

“I am delighted for Trey and the team, and feel that he is deserving of this award,” MBA coach Giles Cheevers said. “He would be the first to say that the team played a big part in Trey winning this award.”

The 6-foot-2 Gill plays defender, midfielder and forward. A two-time Division II all-state selection, he has 36 career goals and 22 assists.

“Trey has been a huge influence on the MBA team,” Centennial coach Sandy Pollock said. “Playing up top with his back to goal has been his strength since he is able to hold the ball, get other players into the game and create goals. He has been a major reason for MBA’s success this year.”

“It was a good victory for us because we gave up a goal early, and then we had a man red carded, so we’re a goal down and a man down with half of the first half and all of the second half left,” Ryan coach Robin Dieterich said. “To me, what I was proud of, was the character the guys showed — not to quit when they’re down a goal and down a man, but keep fighting.”

]]>http://blogs.tennessean.com/high-school-sports/2013/03/18/father-ryan-wins-sims-tournament-title-in-ot/feed/0Enrollments for TSSAA reclassification process releasedhttp://blogs.tennessean.com/high-school-sports/2012/10/03/enrollments-for-tssaa-reclassification-process-released/
http://blogs.tennessean.com/high-school-sports/2012/10/03/enrollments-for-tssaa-reclassification-process-released/#commentsWed, 03 Oct 2012 19:24:57 +0000Maurice Pattonhttp://blogs.tennessean.com/high-school-sports/?p=3789The Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association has released the enrollment figures for the state’s high schools that will be used to establish classification for the 2013-17 school years.

Subsequent steps in the classification process are that: schools will have the opportunity to move from Division I (non-financial aid-providing schools) to Division II by notifying the TSSAA in writing by noon on Oct. 16; schools will be divided into Division I or Division II; independent schools remaining in Division I will have the 1.8 multiplier applied to their enrollment; and schools will be divided into classifications (three classes for Division I, two for Division II).

On Oct. 17, after breakpoints are set for Class A, AA and AAA in Division I and Class A and AA in Division II, schools will have a week to move up from the class dictated by their enrollment. Those moves will not affect the previously established breakpoints. On Oct. 25, the state office will begin placing schools in districts and regions in their respective classes. Those groupings will be distributed to members of the TSSAA Board of Control and made available to the schools.

On Nov. 15, the Board of Control will meet and set the districts and regions for the 2013-17 classification period.

According to the released figures, four of the state’s 12 largest schools are in Rutherford County (Blackman, 2,381, No. 1; LaVergne, 2,133, No. 8; Riverdale, 2,028, No. 11; Smyrna, 1,998, No. 12). Cookeville (2,163) is the fifth-largest and McGavock (2,159) is sixth-largest.